4 Apr
2002
4 Apr
'02
5:21 a.m.
barry@zope.com (Barry A. Warsaw) writes:
So if a process handed qmail-smtpd a message without a Date: header, and it sends the message on to some remote smtpd without adding the Date: header, is that legal? I guess you'd say because Qmail wasn't the originator of the message, it would be
Playing the qmail advocate, I'd probably say this, yes.
but the remote smtpd would be within its rights to reject it.
Perhaps, but I still don't think this makes qmail's behavior illegal. Given a rejected message, the trail of guilt would lead back to the originating program, where the problem should be corrected.